Agenda

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 Designer Overview
 Flow Services
 Document types
 Mapping
 Java Services
 Invoking Services (Run, Trace, Step)
 Messaging, Triggers
 Specification
 Schema
 JDBC Adapter (Adapter Service, Adapter Notification)
 Flat File Handling

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Designer Overview
Designer Overview
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• WebMethods Designer is a eclipse based IDE development tool that you use to build, edit, and test
integration logic.

• Construct integration logic with an easy‐to‐use implementation language called the webMethods flow
language

• Designer also has extensive data transformation and mapping capabilities that allow you to quickly drag‐
and‐drop data fields from one step to the next.
Login to Designer
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Designer Main Window Editor Window
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Properties window

Navigation Elements
Navigation Elements
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Navigation Elements Contd.
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Navigation Elements Contd.
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Switching perspectives
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 Service Development Perspective - that contains the views, editors, and tabs needed to build services and other
supporting elements

 Debug Perspective -When you debug a service, use the Debug perspective. The Debug perspective contains
various views for helping you debug your service

 Process Development Perspective

Elements
An element is an item that exists in the Navigation panel in webMethods Designer.
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Elements include folders, services, specifications, IS document types, triggers, and IS schemas.
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Flow Services
Flow Services
•A flow service is a service that is written in the webMethods flow language.
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•This simple yet powerful language lets you encapsulate a sequence of services within a single service and manage the flow of data
among them.

•Locking and Unlocking:

•A lock on an element prevents another user from editing that element. When an element is locked by you, you have a user lock. The
element is read‐only to all other users on the Integration Server. Another user cannot edit the element until you unlock it.
Flow Steps
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Invoke Step
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The INVOKE flow step invokes another service. You can use it to invoke any type of service, including another flow service.
Map STEP
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LOOP STEP
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The LOOP step takes as input an array variable that is in the pipeline. It loops over the
members of an input array, executing its child steps each time through the loop
Repeat STEP
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•The REPEAT step repeatedly executes its child steps up to a maximum number of times
that you specify. It determines whether to re‐execute the child steps based on a Repeat on
condition. You can set the repeat condition to one of the following:

•Repeat if any one of the child steps fails.

•Repeat if all of the elements succeed.

SEQUENCE
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BRANCH
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•The BRANCH step selects and executes a child step based on the value of one or more variables in the pipeline. You
indicate the variables you want to branch on by specifying a switch value or by writing an expression that includes the
variables.

Branching on a Switch Value

When you branch on a switch value, you specify the switch variable in the Switch property of the BRANCH step. In
the Label property for each child step, you specify the value of the switch variable that will cause that child step to
execute. At run time, the BRANCH flow step executes the child step that has the same label as the value of the Switch
property.

Branching on Expressions
When you branch on expressions, you set the Evaluate labels property of the BRANCH step to true. In the Label
property for each child step, you write an expression that includes one or more variables. At run time, the BRANCH
step executes the first child step with an expression that evaluates to true.
Exit Step
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The EXIT step exits the entire flow service or a single flow step. Specifically, it may exit
from the nearest ancestor loop step, or the entire
flow service.

The EXIT step can throw an exception if the exit is considered a failure. When an
exception is thrown, user‐specified error message text is displayed by typing it directly or by assigning it to a variable in the pipeline.
Data Types
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Document Type
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•An IS document type contains a set of fields used to define the structure and type of data
in a document (IData object). You can use an IS document type to specify input or output
parameters for a service

You can create an IS document type in the following ways:

• Create an empty IS document type and define the structure of the document type
yourself by inserting fields.

•Create an IS document type from a source file, such as an XML Schema, DTD, or XML
document. The structure and content of the IS document type will match that of the
source file.

• Create an IS document type from a Broker document type.

Modifiers (Mapping)
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Link a pipeline variable to a service variable. The Link modifier lets you
resolve variable‐name and data‐structure differences by “linking”
(copying) the value of one variable to another at run time.

Drop a variable from the pipeline. The Drop modifier removes

extraneous variables from the pipeline

Assign a value to a variable. The Set Value modifier “hard codes” a

value for a variable
Java Services
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When you build a Java service, you type (or paste) your code in the text box in the Java
service editor and run the java service to see the outputs.
Running Services
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•You can use Designer to test services in two ways:
•From Designer. With this technique, Designer is the client. That is, Designer invokes the service and receives the results.

•From a browser. With this technique, Designer formulates the URL necessary to
invoke the service and passes that URL to your browser. Your browser actually
invokes the service and receives the results.

•Trace Executes flow steps one after another to the end of the service and visually marks steps as they execute.

•Trace to Here Executes flow steps one after another up to a specified point and visually marks steps as they execute Step Executes the
next flow step and then halts

•Step Into Opens a child flow or a MAP step so that you can debug the
•individual flow steps within it
Messaging/Trigger
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In an integration solution that uses the publish‐and‐subscribe model, services publish
instances of publishable document types, and triggers subscribe to publishable document types.

When you build an integration solution that uses publication and subscription, you need
to create the publishable document types before you create triggers, services that process documents, and services that publish documents

What is Broker / Universal Messaging :

The Broker/Universal Messaging is a high-speed message router. It enables asynchronous, message-based solutions that are built on the
publish-and-subscribe model.
 
The role of the Broker/universal messaging is to route documents between information producers (publishers) and information consumers
(subscribers

The Broker/Universal Messaging maintains list of subscribers that are interested in receiving certain types of documents. When the
Broker/Universal messaging receives a published document, it queues the document for the subscribers of that document type. Subscribers
receive the documents from their queues, which usually triggers an action on the subscriber’s system that processes the document.
Specification
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A specification is a IS element that defines a set of service inputs and outputs. If you have multiple services with the same input and output
requirements, you can point each service to a single specification rather than manually specify individual input and output fields in each
service.

Any change that you make to the specification is automatically propagated to all
services that reference that specification.
IS Schema
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An IS schema is a element in the Navigation panel that acts as the blueprint or model against which you validate an XML document
JDBC Adapter Services
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Adapter services allow you to connect to the adapter’s resource and initiate an operation on the resource from the Integration Server.

You call adapter services from flow or Java services to interact with database tables. The adapter services perform database operations by
calling JDBC APIs

Adapter services are based on templates provided with the JDBC Adapter. Each template represents a specific technique for doing work on
a resource, such as using the SelectSQL template to retrieve specified information from a database

JDBC Templates:
Select SQL
Insert SQL
Update SQL
Batch Insert SQL
Batch Update SQL
Delete SQL
Dynamic SQL
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An adapter notification monitors a specified database table for changes, such as an insert, update, or delete operation, so that the
appropriate Java or flow services can make use of the data, such as sending an invoice or publishing it to the Integration Server.
Flat file Handling
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A flat file schema is the blueprint that contains the instructions for parsing or creating a
flat file and is created as a namespace element in the webMethods Integration Server. This blueprint details the structure of the document,
including delimiters, records, and
repeated record structures. A flat file schema also acts as the model against which you can validate an inbound flat file.

A flat file schema consists of hierarchical elements that represent each record, field, and
subfield in a flat file. Each element is a record, composite, or field, and either a definition or reference. You then configure each element
with the necessary constraints
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